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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:59:37 -0600
Subject: Re: Martijn Faassen: The Call of Python 2.8
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On Apr 14, 2014 11:46 AM, <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I will most probably backport two quite large applications
> to Py27 ("scientific data processing apps").

These applications are already on Python 3? Why do you want them on Python
2? Even the people talking about a 2.8 are only seeing it as an upgrade
path to Python 3.

> It's more a question of willingness, than a technical
> difficulty. Then basta.
> Note: cp1252 is good enough. (latin1/iso8859-1 not!).

Because cp1252 includes that holiest of holies, the Euro sign, I assume.

Point of curiosity: if the first 256 codepoints of Unicode happened to
correspond to cp1252 instead of Latin-1, would you still object to the FSR?

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<p dir="ltr"><br>
On Apr 14, 2014 11:46 AM, &lt;<a href="mailto:wxjmfauth@gmail.com">wxjmfauth@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I will most probably backport two quite large applications<br>
&gt; to Py27 (&quot;scientific data processing apps&quot;).</p>
<p dir="ltr">These applications are already on Python 3? Why do you want them on Python 2? Even the people talking about a 2.8 are only seeing it as an upgrade path to Python 3.</p>
<p dir="ltr">&gt; It&#39;s more a question of willingness, than a technical<br>
&gt; difficulty. Then basta.<br>
&gt; Note: cp1252 is good enough. (latin1/iso8859-1 not!).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Because cp1252 includes that holiest of holies, the Euro sign, I assume.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Point of curiosity: if the first 256 codepoints of Unicode happened to correspond to cp1252 instead of Latin-1, would you still object to the FSR?</p>

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